Bill Text: CA AB2 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Community colleges: California College Promise.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 509, Statutes of 2019. [AB2 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Community colleges: California College Promise.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 509, Statutes of 2019. [AB2 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2 |
| Introduced by Assembly Members Santiago, Bonta, McCarty, and Chiu |
December 03, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 76396.3 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2, as introduced, Santiago.
Community colleges: California College Promise.
Existing law establishes the California College Promise, under the administration of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to provide funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to each community college meeting prescribed requirements. Existing law authorizes a community college to use that funding to waive some or all of the fees for one academic year for certain first-time students who are enrolled in 12 or more semester units or the equivalent at the college and complete and submit either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application.
This bill would instead authorize a community college to use California College Promise funding to waive fees for 2 academic years for these students.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 76396.3 of the Education Code is amended to read:76396.3.
(a) A community college that has been certified by the chancellor as meeting the requirements established under Section 76396.2 shall receive funding pursuant to Section 76396.(b) The community college may use funding appropriated pursuant to this article to waive some or all of the fees for first-time community college students who are enrolled at the college full time, and complete and submit either a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or a California Dream Act application. A fee waiver that a student receives pursuant to this subdivision shall only be for one two
academic year
years and fees shall only be waived for the summer term and each semester or quarter of that an academic year in which the student maintains full-time status. A fee waiver provided pursuant to this subdivision shall not be available to a student who is charged a tuition fee pursuant to Section 76140.
(c) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) “Academic year” means the total of the summer term that immediately precedes the first semester or quarter of the fall term, and the two consecutive semesters or three quarters that
immediately follow that summer term. Each semester or quarter is approximately the same length.
(1)
(2) “Full time” means 12 or more semester units or the equivalent.
(2)“One academic year” means the total of the summer term that immediately precedes the first semester or quarter of the fall term, and the two consecutive semesters or three quarters that immediately follow that summer term. Each semester or quarter is approximately the same length.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that funding provided to support the California College Promise be used by the community college to advance the goals outlined in Section 76396.1.
